But, alas, at Lissie's 3-year well check-up, her pediatrician highly recommended a particular dentist that I had already heard some great things about so we went ahead and made the appointment.
I'm sure it helped that I had my routine dental visit a few weeks earlier, so I had started talking to her a little about what a dentist does. And it definitely helped that one of Lissie's friends had gone to the dentist, and Lissie enjoyed seeing pictures of it on her mommy's blog. In fact, all this hype about the dentist made her super excited, and she kept asking when it was her turn to go.
I'll admit that when I perused our dentist's website, I was very nervous about the fact that they don't allow parents back during the procedures. Their rationale is that it fosters independence and allows the staff to gain a "closer rapport" to the patients. Knowing my timid daughter who can get separation anxiety just from a routine dropoff at school, I wasn't sure what to expect.
My worries were for naught. Lissie was bouncing up and down all the way to the dentist's office, and she and Xavier (who was just along for the ride) were enjoying being silly and watching Elmo and reading stories in the waiting room. As soon as the hygienist called her name, she dropped what she was doing and ran back. Not even a glance at me to say good-bye. Phew.
After just a few minutes, they called us back to tell us that she did absolutely awesome during the initial cleaning, and we were free to take the obligatory pics and play video games in the kid room while we waited on the dentist. The final report was that everything looked great, and they'll just see us again in six months!
Lissie loved it so much that she has asked every day to go back. It might be a long six months, haha.
Oh, and we decided to make a fun morning out of it and went to Cheekwood afterwards for Tuesdays for Tots and to just enjoy the beautiful spring day.
Yay!
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